The w orld in fine art

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The world in fine art
Exhibiition 26 May to 23 June 2011
Tuesday to Friday 15-19h, Saturday 14-17h
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Régis Colombo
”Any travel is valid only if is shared“...
Of his images brought back from the edge
of the planet, the famous Buddhist monk and
interpreter for the Dalai Lama, Matthieu Ricard
said they were «a tribute to the beauty and
inner beings in the light fantastic places.
After a premiere in Paris in 2010, the gallery
Swiss Arts Space will host Regis Colombo for his
exhibition ”Transparencies“, the world in fine art,
exhibition sponsored by Animan magazine
as part of its 30 years.
Contacts
Galerie | Laurence Bettens-Girod
Rue du Valentin 32, 1004 Lausanne
Tel +41 (0)21 320 3977
[email protected]
Artist+image | Régis Colombo
Rue du Valentin 34, 1004 Lausanne
Tel +41 (0)79 640 1440
[email protected]
www.regiscolombo.com
Contact USA
Artist Agent | Catherine Testorf
[email protected]
Tel 1 917 981 4307
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“Transparencies”, a report from
the photographer’s imaginary world
The images from the “Transparencies” series
borrow both from the pictorial tradition and
from the very modern photographic process of
digital fusion.
Régis Colombo’s compositions owe a debt
both to reportage - with moments of eternity
captured by the photographer - and to the
waking dream - in which the traveller’s good
and bad memories are all mixed up - and
recreate the quintessence of the places he has
visited, such as New York, Dubai, Paris, Istanbul
and Zanzibar. The dozens of images assembled
into large pixel frescoes always have more than
one story to tell. Seen from a distance, they draw
the eye, hypnotise it like a neon light, and then
imprint themselves upon the memory with all
the power of a flashbulb. When you draw near to
them, they reveal a never-ending stream of little
anecdotes, curiosities glimpsed, deliberately
provocative winks and smiles.
Colombo’s images are different each time you
immerse your gaze in them and they transport
those who linger over them to the ends of the
Earth, at the same time giving them the most
fabulous of all the freedoms offered by travel,
the freedom of the imagination.
Each mural is made only with pictures of the place
visited and photographed . All images come every
time the same country or even city. All the effects are
derived directly from the camera.
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Régis Colombo - a painter in pixels
Transparencies
The Swiss photographer Régis Colombo has
made a name for himself both in his own country
and abroad through his portraits, his advertising
work, his landscapes and, above all, through
the long journeys he has been making for more
than ten years now. This snapshot backpacker
has travelled all over the world, including Asia, Africa
and both North and South America, to forty or so
countries, usually preferring to take paths which no
telephoto lens has ever travelled before. Because his
indefatigably curious eye - which is sensitive to even
the slightest variation in the light, demanding
nothing less than technical perfection - is
always looking for a photograph, a photograph
concentrating the nuances, vibrations and
moments of magic which words simply cannot
describe. Ever since he began work on his
“Transparencies” series five years ago, Colombo has
been edging closer to this ideal of one perfect image
containing all others, all sensations and all emotions.
There are collages full of violently expressionistic
colours – his computer mouse is handled here with the
same freedom as a brush on canvas, genre scenes
reminiscent of an electric Jérôme Bosch, digital
heirs to pop art, indeed, Colombo’s photographs are
constantly alluding to painting. In actual fact, the artist
was a painter long before he became a photographer and this is why
his impressionistic “Transparencies” transcend the photographic image
and enrich the beholder.
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Brief biography
Solo and group shows
1969 Régis Colombo was born in Switzerland.
He became interested in photography when he was
still very young.
2011 26 May to 23 June 2011, Lausanne,
Galerie Swiss Art Space, Solo exhibition
1985 to 1989, he studied to be a draughtsman and architect and made various trips around Europe and the
USA.
1989 à 1996, he worked at an architecture workshop
whilst at the same time travelling and devoting his
time to oil painting.
Worked on various magazines.
Spent a year in Asia.
1997 Opened his own studio and still works there today.
His images are published in advertising, art and the
media-including the press and many international
magazines, especially in Europe.
Published a number of books on the Sahara,
Zanzibar, Portraits of Asia and Swiss vineyards.
Art books
2009 Chillon-160 pages-12x12 cm,
photos by Régis Colombo,
text by Jean Pierre Pastori, published by Favre
2007 Mémoire du Vignobles Genevois
(Memories of the Vineyards of Geneva),
176 pages-30x24 cm,
photos by Régis Colombo,
texts by Jean Lamotte, published by Slatkine
2006 Asie (Asia)-192 pages-21x30 cm,
preface by Matthieu Ricard, published by Favre
2005 Zanzibar-176 pages-21x30 cm,
photos by Régis Colombo,
texts by Jean-Blaise Besençon, published by Favre
2004 Sahara-192 pages-21x30 cm,
photos by Régis Colombo, preface by Albert
Jacquard, texts by Antoine Blanc, published by Favre
2003 Vignobles Suisses (Swiss Vineyards)
224 pages-21x30 cm, photos by Régis Colombo,
texts by Pierre Thomas, published by Favree
2002 La Magie de l’Énergie (The Magic of Energy)
64 pages-21x21 cm, photos by Régis Colombo,
text by J.P. Jelmini, published by EOS
2011 29 April to 3 May, Geneva, artbygeneve,
international contemporary art fair
2011 12 to 21 March, Lausanne, Art and Design Fair
2011 Solo Exhibition reportage in FNAC Switzerland,
Lausanne and Geneva
2010 26 November to 11 December, Paris,
Sparts Gallery, Solo exhibition
2010 23 to 28 November, Geneva,
Festival Project’Images 2010, Group exhibition
2010 28th April to 2nd May, Geneva, artbygeneve,
international contemporary art fair
2010 April to December, Vevey, Musee Suisse de l’Appareil
Photographique (Swiss Camera Museum),
group show
2010 6th to 14th March 2010, Lausanne,
Salon Art et Formes, an art and design fair
2009 22nd October to 10th November 2009,
Sparts Gallery, Paris,
group show with five photographers
2009 31st August to 13th September 2009, Paris, Hôtel de
Ville de Paris: auction held on behalf of humanitarian
organisations
2008 22nd June to 22nd July 2008, China,
“World Photojournalism Festival”
2005 exhibition on Zanzibar and the Sahara at
Swiss FNAC stores
2002 Geneva, World Intellectual Property Organisation
(WIPO), group showe
1994 and 1996, a number of exhibitions on
Jazz and Asia in French-speaking Switzerland
Awards
2004 Spécial mention du Prix du château de Chatagneréaz for the images for book ”Swiss Vineyards“
2004 Award ”Monographie et études spécialisées
à caractère promotionnel” of International
Organisation of vine and wines awarded in Paris
2004 ”Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2003“
for the best photographic album of wine domains
”Vignobles suisses“ awarded in Barcelona
2006 First prize from Edmond de Rothschild for the best
work on wine produced in Switzerland presented
by Nadine de Rothschild.
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For press expo Royalty-free images solely
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Laurence Bettens-Girod | +41 (0)21 312 4774
Rue du Valentin 32, 1004 Lausanne.
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November 2006. The main object is to promote
new talents in different artistic fields (painting,
sculpture, photography, visual installations etc).
Supporting new and young artists provides an
alternative to presentation of the well known
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Since September 2010, the Swiss Poster
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